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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
3
The General Demand for a pleasant and efficient laxative is met by Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna from the California Fig Syrup Co. Physicians sanction its gentle yet prompt action. Buy genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product. price fifty cents per bottle.
Clarke M. Drake of Prattsburg New York argues for abolishing hitching posts in villages. He says horses suffer in wind and rain, create odors, and deserve sheds with feed mangers to stay dry and comfortable.
Slogans tout the product as a good housekeeper aid sold by lending grocers for cents. The ad emphasizes reliable whitening from Red Cross Ball Blue and targets homemakers seeking affordable laundry help.
Ferdinand Dratz of Muskegon lakeside used a carpenter’s hammer from his sixteen-foot launch to strike a large sturgeon seen just beneath the surface. The eighty-pound fish, sixty-eight inches long, was brought aboard the craft after the stunned creature began to sink. The incident underscores debate on natural history realism in angling.
The plain woman tells the artist she wants a photograph showing her as she is, prompting the artist to exclaim disappointment at the outside showcase aim. After a brief exchange, there is no further trouble.
A Yale chaplain prays condemning the students as sinners while a freshman quips about Harvard men. The exchange captures campus satire and tension between rivals Harvard and Yale during the era. The brief vignette reflects college culture and religious-inflected taunts surrounding collegiate identity.
In a Pinch use Allen's Foot-Ease a powder to shake into your shoes. It eases feet and cures corns bunions swollen sore hot callous aching sweating feet and ingrowing nails. It makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25c sample mailed free address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York.
In a Baltimore American quip, Mrs Smithers resisted one twin's marriage insisting she could not break a cherished set of routines. The joke hinges on her extreme fussiness and attachment to orderly chores.
An advertisement reports a child found wandering on Castle Street on a Saturday evening. The three year old appeared healthy with dark hair gray eyes and ruddy cheeks and could talk a little and swear.
Doctor asks about buzzing ears. Patient replies with a joke about his wife, delivering a light social quip in the Philadelphia Press.
The Pittsburg Post notes the lead actor in a play is severely wounded in the second scene and a doctor issues bulletins between acts, highlighting a realism focus in the production.
Historic Suffolk families in the seventeenth century carried over a peculiarly Suffolk pronunciation to America, from which the modern seminasal Yankee twang developed according to the London Spectator.
Stella compares a horse race with no wagering to a summer resort without a man in a brief New York Sun item. Bella adds the analogy in contrast, highlighting a carefree setting.
Fragmentary lines show a farmer musing about the saying of three Jutchpennys and a wife. The odd text hints at a folk reference or local saying threaded into rural talk.
The piece compares J Pierpont Morgan to a traveling peddler, arguing his vast fortune was earned by selling securities. It muses that he could earn a million a year peddling books, and even ex President Roosevelt could sell encyclopedias by name after 1909.
Philadelphia Press reports a brief exchange where Borem notes leaving a card because Miss Pepprey was away. Pepprey confirms she was considering the gesture but not the card itself and mentions calling when she wasn’t at home.
The wealthy Briton is the most fastidious about domestic service and demands a full dress rehearsal of a servant before hiring. Masters and mistresses critique every detail from manners to buttering and serving, treating domestics like prized horses or dogs.
A bank policy requires every employee to sign in on arrival with reason for delay. Usually fog prompts the first entry and others copy ditto. Recently the first late employee wrote wife had twins, and twenty others copied ditto beneath.
In a Cleveland Leader excerpt a speaker asks about loving enemies and affirms the Bible’s guidance. The remark adds humor as the speaker laments choosing difficult opponents.
Early estimates of the Colossus height vary with 157 feet as an extreme figure. If accurate, the ancient statue standing at the water would tower over the Statue of Liberty by more than six feet.
A Cornish farmer quips about his son seeking memory lessons, saying he fears improvement as the boy already remembers every tune ever whistled. The remark reflects a humorous take on memory and learning.
A Louisville Courier Journal reader notes a misquote debate as a man cites the line You can't fool all of the people all of the time while a philosopher interjects about self-deception, illustrating a humorous misattribution discussion.
A humorous exchange about medieval horse breeds ends with a pun. The speaker jokes that the popular steed of the era was a knightmare, blending knight and nightmare for comic effect.
The camel costs about as much as a fine horse yet offers greater speed and a longer life. It can carry a load equivalent to three horses, underscoring its value as a sturdy beast of burden.
A Michigan reader credits Grape-Nuts and Postum with better training results and weight gain. He says cutting meat and coffee improved mornings and performance, noting gains from 124 to 140 pounds while using Grape-Nuts as a principal training diet.
In Yardley a detective recalls solving a baffling identification case after a killed man’s body was found near a farmhouse. He identifies the victim by tracing carrier pigeons and summoning the son from fifty miles away to confirm, resolved within hours at Bowers farm east of Gerretsville.
A Philadelphia Press snippet recalls men who tagged small Atlantic City cod with copper wires and identifiers. One man attached his name tag. the next year a larger cod with the same tag nearly proves the tale, with another man tying a tin whistle and later a fog horn to a tiny fish.
A Philadelphia Press excerpt features Ragson Tatters warning against slang. It recounts a man asked for soap and the response No led to a realization that soap was slang for money, illustrating language humor from years past.
A collage of curious items: the deepest earth shaft in Upper Silesia reaching 6 570 feet, royal cigars at $3 75 each, Harrisburg mayor's lenient approach to drunks, Judge Coffee on dog inheritance, a Cleveland cloak joke, Japan’s Susumushi beetle, a Day ton editor’s vanished body and diamonds, a Belfast photo deer, Chicago pneumatic parcel tests, and theology students debating providence over a printed prayer slip.
A bachelor rector, alone in his study, receives a visit from a spinster parishioner with means and charm. She asks, in faltering tones, whether a woman is justified in proposing, prompting the rector to admit he would consider a proposal under certain conditions. She declares, Thou art the man, and he concedes.
A sermonic briefing on Israel’s choice of Saul as king, Samuel’s integrity, and the nation's rejection of Jehovah. Samuel recalls his lifetime service, dismisses bribery, and warns that fear of the Lord requires faithful obedience and continued devotion amid royal leadership.
A comic exchange unfolds with a suitor unsure whether he should call the father Mr. Bronson Mr. Wibbles or Mr. Hotchkiss prompting confusion about his daughter's intended match. The scene appears in the Cleveland Leader.
A mock dialogue depicts a man overboard as the ship’s crew debates raising an alarm. The exchange ends with the line that the man was all-in, reflecting a humorous restraint.
The original Jewish temple in Jerusalem was built by Solomon in 1000 B C and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B C. Zerubbabel rebuilt it in 534 B C but Pompey destroyed it in 63 B C. Herod rebuilt it in 21 B C, and Titus finally destroyed it in 70 A D.
A fragmentary report describes a cat fleeing after a large cracker purchase at the expense of Tabby and a child named Willie who flew over a fence. The tale hints at mischief and a missing pet in a rural setting.
A passage describes the bearded saki as perhaps the ugliest creature in the world. The grotesque animal with a beard bears a sinister appearance that shocks observers. Native South Americans say even a hungry jaguar would not attack it, preferring to starve in a cage of sakis.
G W Winney of Medina New York invites kidney sufferers to write for recovery details after he was cured by Dean's Kidney Pills following eighteen months of doctors and hospital care. He claims weight gain from 143 to 162 pounds and full relief from back pain lameness dizziness and rheumatism. Sold by Foster Milburn Buffalo New York 50 cents a box.
A Denver Times item recounts a thirteen pound fish in a San Miguel tributary, trapped for decades by mining tailings. The fish allegedly swallowed gold particles during escapes, and an operation found eleven ounces of gold in its appendix, performed for $220. the fish later died of heart failure.
A city salesman recounts two months of furniture polish orders driven by tailoring his pitch to Southern accents. He notes a breakthrough after addressing a West Side customer as a Southern-born speaker, claiming Southern women respond favorably to their regional speech.
A witty girl jokes about living alone to obtain kisses, prompting laughter from the cadre as they gaze at a scene in Pittsburg. The playful exchange highlights social amusements and flirtatious wit in a lighthearted moment.
A summer resort proprietor defends claims of no mosquitoes, stating a February booklet confirmed the truth and vows to prove the absence of any mosquitoes within 500 miles at that time.
An old grocer’s pitch advertises Red Cross Ball Blue laundry powder at 5 cents a pack. The copy urges shoppers to keep clothes white as snow with this product.
In the New Orleans Times-Democrat a quarrel over sun heating tools unfolds. An older carpenter mocks superstition while detailing tempering temperatures for chisels axes planes saws and tools, asserting sun exposure cannot affect tempered steel below its heat threshold.
Mrs. Graham, famed for interior decoration, drank red ink mistaken for claret. She feared harm but suffered no injury. The doctor dryly warned that the urge for decoration can be carried too far.
Stella and Mabel discuss marriage prospects with Hawkins while Papa and Mamma weigh finances family ties and style. The exchange reveals tensions over a potential proposal and approval.
The fragmentary lines suggest a dialogue about touch and value, referencing a statesman named Yonkerg. Without full context, the piece presents a quirky exchange on causation between touch and wealth.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference changes to dog regulations and muzzling rules. No clear actions or dates are readable. The snippets mention photographs and New York Sun context but do not provide complete details.
Miss Ruth Stokes a Oklahoma ranch owner with twenty oil wells earns about $100 daily. She travels with a Wild West show and says she tired of civilization, preferring riding horses over cotillions. She is five nine, brunette, educated in New York, and questions how Eastern friends would view her choice.
Mrs Stubb reproves John for shirt sleeves while Mr Stubb defends comfort. Mrs Brown’s husband is described as a man of culture and his shirts are made by Brown’s wife.
A humorous exchange explores marital dynamics where a husband may quit cigars if his wife asks. The counterpoint notes that a wife’s true love would prompt her to make that request only if she believes he will heed it. Puck.
A writer states the Bengalese are not a warlike people due to climate. Damp warmth yields a small boned population with flesh but diminutive wrists and ankles, contributing to a non martial character.
A witty aristocrat rooster from Duster contemplates mortality and evolution. The bird muses that man returns to dust while it itself evolves into a duster, celebrating a clever twist on fate and aspiration.
Poetic line contrasts love with practicality as a man must find funds to pursue affection, reflecting a columnist’s mood about delays and financial constraint in love.
Grandfather recalls two eczema recoveries linked to Cuticura remedies. He says a baby’s severe attack in 1884 improved to full health after using Cuticura, and years later his own winter sores vanished after applying the same remedies. Louisville, Kentucky resident M. W. LaRue cites April 23 and May 14, 1907 as dates.
In a brief Chicago Tribune exchange a speaker notes Dick's fickle nature and the other confirms leveraging his generosity to obtain an expensive solitaire, highlighting a social gambit around a prized gift.
A fragment quotes a menacing street dialogue in New York where a robber demands money with threats to shoot, while another speaker mocks the need for money over brains, attributed to a character named Puck.
A humorous quip from Life magazine riffs on fashion over time. A fond mother comments on her child wearing last year's dress while noting the legs look current year. The exchange captures light domestic wit.
The Professor explains that astronomers retain strong eyesight because their work requires it. The doctor asks why their vision is powerful, and the professor replies that it is precisely the strength of their eyes that leads them to be astronomers.
A dialog excerpt shows a neighbor asking if the sister loves Mr Simpkins and Dora stating she lets children stay in the parlor when he visits, implying social propriety in a domestic scene.
The passage speaks to American women in lonely homes who long for the blessing of motherhood. It asserts that organic derangement prevents happiness and urges all women interested to understand that preparation for healthy maternity is accomplished by the use of certain remedies or practices.
Woman’s health ads praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female ills. Letters from Mrs Maggie Gilmer and Mrs Josephine Hall claim restored health and motherhood after uterine issues, with guidance to write for advice to Lynn Mass.
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